Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.