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

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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.

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Time is the best killer.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.