Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself.
Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see.
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
Don't count your chickens until they've hatched.
One of the great truths of life is that you can't do all alone. You need help along the way.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Wise people know the fact, smart people know how to act, intelligent people don't react, brilliant people make an impact; but the truly nice people make wisely everyone understand how to act smart or intelligently react for a brilliant impact.
My house is my castle.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening.
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Never show your weakness to the world because the world is very much interested to play with it.
