The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

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.

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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.

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