Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

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

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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