Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.