Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.