The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.