Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isnt correct. We all start with all there is, its how we use it that makes things possible.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.
Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.
Failure is no accident.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Insight emerges out of silence.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.
When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
