There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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.

The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself!

I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I don't mess around when it comes to brushing my teeth. Properly brushed, twice a day, every day, to get my day started.

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.