To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The less you know, the more you believe.