I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.