If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Any place I hang my head is home.

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.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Life must be lived as play.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.