Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.