Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life