How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

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.

You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle

A goal without action is like a late night dream.

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.