He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life