I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

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.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.