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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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.

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

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

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.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.