Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.