I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
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.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
