He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.