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

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.