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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

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

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.