Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

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.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

We all owe death a life.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.