Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.

Let dreams shine. Let hope bloom again.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.