Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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 does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

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

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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