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?

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

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

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.