All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.