Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

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

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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

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

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 like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

It takes a long time to grow young.

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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.

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