I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.