“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

“Modern technique, as Marx pointed out, fosters the concentration of capital, and the levels of profits is supported by a scarcity of enterprise which is not due to the real cost of risk-bearing, but to the scarcity of individuals who have anything to risk.”

“Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.”

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

“Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.”