We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Live your life and forget your age.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion