Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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.

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

Live simply so others may simply live.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Live to the point of tears.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child