Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

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

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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

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.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.