The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Time is the best killer.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

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

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.