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.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Pain don't hurt.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose