"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

"Love and friendship exclude each other."

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."