I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, butreligious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.