The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
