Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

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

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The future is the shape of things to come.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.