What goes up must come down.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.