Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

We all owe death a life.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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.