Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.