Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.