Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

What goes up must come down.

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.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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.

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

Life must be lived as play.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'