“For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.”

For a great willpower, no road has length!

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

Sincere wishes come true.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That’s also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

I don’t keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

May God protect us from all the religions!

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

If there is moonlight outside, don’t stay inside! If there is candle inside, don’t stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

There is an old saying that when you meet your soulmate, your heart will not palpitate. Your body will not grow hot. Instead, you will feel like suddenly, you understand everything, and the tranquility of a thousand moons will grow between you. That was how she felt when she saw him.

Hawai’i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs–islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.