Certain signs precede certain events.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

My art and profession is to live.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

In the end, everything is a gag.

History is the devil's scripture.