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.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.