Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.