The future starts today, not tomorrow.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

What goes up must come down.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.