One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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!

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

History is the devil's scripture.

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.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

We think too much and feel too little.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.