Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
There's place and means for every man alive.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
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.
Life must be lived as play.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
