We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

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

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.