Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!