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 past is the best prophet of the future.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

A life not lived for others is not a life.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Live your life and forget your age.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.