When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The future is the shape of things to come.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.