One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Live to the point of tears.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.