Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
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.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.