I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.

I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.

I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.

I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.