The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Certain signs precede certain events.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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 the best killer.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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