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

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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