Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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.'

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air