Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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 more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
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
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
