Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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