Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.