The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Nature is not human-hearted.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

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

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.