The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.