Only the fools are certain and assured.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.

If anyone controls your feelings, emotions, and thoughts—she or he controls you. Even if you are longing for love, think of yourself with love.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.