One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

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

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

We think too much and feel too little.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.