Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

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 secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Live your life and forget your age.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

I restore myself when I'm alone.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.