All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Discipline is consistency of action.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

no one bears witness for the witness

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine