There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
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.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.