In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.