Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.