The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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 image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Any place I hang my head is home.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
