Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.