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.

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.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Live to the point of tears.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.