There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )

Clearly, she hadn’t heard of the two words ‘social’ and ‘life’.

I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.