If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
We think too much and feel too little.
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.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
