Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

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

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Live simply so others may simply live.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.