Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

What goes up must come down.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The less you know, the more you believe.