All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

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