It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

We think too much and feel too little.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

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

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.