The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.