Courage is a kind of salvation.

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

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Time is the best killer.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.