The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Life should be great rather than long.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.