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

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The future is the shape of things to come.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

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.