The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

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

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.