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

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

We think too much and feel too little.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

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.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.