Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
We think too much and feel too little.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Life is made up of marble and mud.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.