There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

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

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.