Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Sometimes - history needs a push.