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.

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

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

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

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life must be lived as play.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

I am not young enough to know everything.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.