Any place I hang my head is home.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.

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.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

If I get married, I want to be very married.