Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.