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

In the end, everything is a gag.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.