I restore myself when I'm alone.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
