Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.