The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
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.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
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.