Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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

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.

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

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

The way to know life is to love many things.

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.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

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