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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Time is the best killer.

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

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Live your life and forget your age.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

No one has ever become poor by giving.