Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
The way to know life is to love many things.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
