I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Life ain’t always beautiful, but it’s a beautiful ride.

I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating [in the process] has always seem to me an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone – the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it is time to go for good. 

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

You’re like a gray sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

(On if his life was a success): Neither on my deathbed nor before will I ask myself such a question. Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.

In the end, we’ll all become stories.

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.