Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Live your life and forget your age.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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