One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong, find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

There are many ways to meditate. Whatever opens us, softens the heart, makes as alive to this human world and helps us to bear it is our path.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I wish I knew what I know now before.