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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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