Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Live simply so others may simply live.
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.
Pain don't hurt.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
