Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

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.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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