Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
