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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Live to the point of tears.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

We all owe death a life.

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.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Certain signs precede certain events.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

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

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

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

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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