Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.