Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

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

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Nature is not human-hearted.

It takes a long time to grow young.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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.

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.