If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.