All of us are products of our childhood.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.