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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.