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

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life must be lived as play.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

We all owe death a life.

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.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.