Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
