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

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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