Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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!

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

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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

What goes up must come down.

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

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.