Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

History is the devil's scripture.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.