Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.