When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

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

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.