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

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

My art and profession is to live.

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