The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Any place I hang my head is home.

My art and profession is to live.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

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

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

History is the devil's scripture.

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.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.