To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

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

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.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

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

Live simply so others may simply live.