I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

would you dare to love me?

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.

I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.