Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

What goes up must come down.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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

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

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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