To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.