Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

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

There's place and means for every man alive.

What goes up must come down.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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.

History is the devil's scripture.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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.