“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

One is not born, but becomes a woman.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.

I want to live another thousand years.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.