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.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
