Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I am not young enough to know everything.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

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

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

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.