Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.