Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.

A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

But I'm a patient, so I have to focus on recuperation

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.