Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
We think too much and feel too little.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
