Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Where there is love there is life.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

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

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.