Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

My art and profession is to live.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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