Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.