And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
