Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

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

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

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