Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Happy is he who can give himself up.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.