I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

We all owe death a life.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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 has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.