The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Certain signs precede certain events.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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.