Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

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.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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 can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.