You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Success is the process itself.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.