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

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.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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

Life must be lived as play.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Live your life and forget your age.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Live simply so others may simply live.