The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
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.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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.
