The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

My art and profession is to live.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

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

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?