You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life must be lived as play.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see 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.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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