We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
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.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Nature is not human-hearted.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.