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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

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.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.