By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Certain signs precede certain events.