Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox.

Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.