Time is the best killer.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

My art and profession is to live.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

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

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.