I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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.

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

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

We all owe death a life.

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

Where there is love there is life.

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!