Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.