To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Take a look at the world and laugh

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Life bites like a dog.