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 life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.