Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Pain don't hurt.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.