Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

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

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

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

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 purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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.

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Life must be lived as play.