Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
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.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
