Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.