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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

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

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

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.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.