We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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.

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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 not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.