History is a set of lies agreed upon.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.