I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

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.

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

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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