Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.