Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Two to three hours of studying a night, Is good medicine for the soul, I have tried this remedy, It never grows old

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

Experience is the mother of custom.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.