When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
