Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.