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.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Nature is not human-hearted.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.