When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
