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

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.