Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
We all owe death a life.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
