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

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

Any place I hang my head is home.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Where there is love there is life.

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