Live simply so others may simply live.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.