The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.