Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves 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.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
What goes up must come down.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Life should be great rather than long.
There's place and means for every man alive.
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!
