When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.