The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Where there is love there is life.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.