Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Live to the point of tears.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

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

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

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.