If I get married, I want to be very married.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.