Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Life must be lived as play.

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

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.