The friend who understands you, creates you.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."