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

Pain don't hurt.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Nature is not human-hearted.

My art and profession is to live.