Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
