Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
