Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

History is the devil's scripture.

Live your life and forget your age.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

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.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

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

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