The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

We think too much and feel too little.

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

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.