When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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.

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.