One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

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.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.