Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

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.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.