The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Where there is love there is life.