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.

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

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Live to the point of tears.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.