The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.