Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Courage is a kind of salvation.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.