Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.