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.

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

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

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

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.