Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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.

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

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Live your life and forget your age.

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

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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

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

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