And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Pain don't hurt.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

What goes up must come down.

It takes a long time to grow young.