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 man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.