If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.

Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness

In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

She stared at me with concern a few moments longer and then relaxed a little. "Okay. But if you need anything—" "I know, I know. Call on the Love Phone.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.