You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.