Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

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

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.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

My art and profession is to live.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

I am not young enough to know everything.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

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.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.