Age doesn’t 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.

Stars don't beg the sky to shine.

How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.

Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don't learn to treasure the moments, you'll never be able to treasure the memories.

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.