Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Time is the best killer.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.