“The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead.”

“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”

“When we speak of the Rumanian nation, we refer not only to the Rumanians currently living on the same territory, with the same past and same future, the same habits, the same language, the same interests. When we speak of the Rumanian nation we refer to all Rumanians, dead or alive, who have lived on this land of ours from the beginnings of history and will live on it also in the future.”

“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.”

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

“It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”