Time is the best killer.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

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!

Nature is not human-hearted.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.