In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

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