To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Live to the point of tears.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.