We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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.

We all owe death a life.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.