A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.