Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.