Courage is a kind of salvation.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

What goes up must come down.

Live your life and forget your age.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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

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

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.