We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Pain don't hurt.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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

We all owe death a life.

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.