If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Pain don't hurt.

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

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life should be great rather than long.

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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

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.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.