My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

What goes up must come down.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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 only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.