Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

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

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

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

We all owe death a life.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.