Courage is a kind of salvation.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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?

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.