I am not young enough to know everything.

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

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.