Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

It takes a long time to grow young.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Life should be great rather than long.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.