I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Live your life and forget your age.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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.