How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Courage is a kind of salvation.