True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
There's place and means for every man alive.
