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.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.