I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
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.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Live simply so others may simply live.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
What goes up must come down.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.