We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.