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

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Life must be lived as play.

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

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.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

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

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.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.