The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

All of us are products of our childhood.

Where there is love there is life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

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.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.