“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”

“I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.”

“Whether you are young or old, what matters is the grace to continue living hereafter. A man may die young yet be satisfied with living but a wicked man is not satisfied even with long life.”

“We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.”

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

“Every man dies, not every man really lives”

“The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.”

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”

“As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.”