The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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

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

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

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.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.