The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Live to the point of tears.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.