Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.