Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour