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

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

We all owe death a life.

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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

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

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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

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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Pain don't hurt.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.