The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

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

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

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Time is the best killer.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The future is the shape of things to come.