In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

We think too much and feel too little.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.