Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Life should be great rather than long.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
The past is the best prophet of the future.
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.
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.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.