The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.