We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Pain don't hurt.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.