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.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Where there is love there is life.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Time is the best killer.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
All of us are products of our childhood.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.