Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.