And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

We all owe death a life.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

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

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

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.

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

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.