Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

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