No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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

What goes up must come down.

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

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.

Certain signs precede certain events.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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.

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.