The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
