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.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

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

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

We think too much and feel too little.