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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.