Charles de Gaulle

[en] Now she is like the others.

[fr] Maintenant, elle est comme les autres.

• Spoken at the funeral of his daughter Anne, who had Down Syndrome, February 1948

Charles de Gaulle

There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the advice of experts, which is the most certain

Proverb, German

An old man loved is winter with flowers. 

Miguel de Unamuno

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

“It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love”

Miguel de Unamuno

Consciousness is a disease.

Robert Newton Peck

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

Seneca

Life is a play! 'Tis not its length but its performance that counts.

Walt Schmidt

Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

Brenda Ueland

The imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.

Thomas Alva Edison

"There's a way to do it better.
Find it."

Carlos Castaneda

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.

Aldous Huxley

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Hans Holzer

Not believing shortens down horizons.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

(BECOMING)

Spanish Proverb

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and to rest afterward."

Woodrow Wilson

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

Kenyan Proverb

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything.