Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

Happiness is doubled when you share them together and sadness is halved when you share them together.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

The time to make up your mind about people is never.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.