Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

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

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.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

My art and profession is to live.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.