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

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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.