Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.