True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
