The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

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

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.