We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it..

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment..

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest..

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body..

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference..

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him..

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it..

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be..

There is something indecent in words ..

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears..

We never remember days, only moments..

A corpse is what's left after waking too often..

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition..

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish y….

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood see….

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them..

Love is desire for knowledge..

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's..

Lessons are not given, they are taken..

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long..