There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

All of us are products of our childhood.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

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.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.