Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

We think too much and feel too little.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.