As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

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

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.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.