The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

To live is not breathing it is action.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'