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.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn