There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.