The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

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.

Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

We firmly believe in the power of unity and feel that it is easier to get pass hardships and challenges as a team. This gels us and keeps us strong.

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.