In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

Life must be lived as play.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.