Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Live to the point of tears.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Live simply so others may simply live.