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

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.