If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

No one has ever become poor by giving.

All of us are products of our childhood.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed