Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

We all owe death a life.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.