If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.