There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.