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

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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