The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.