The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

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

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.