Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
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.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.