Cada tic-tac é mais um segundo da vida que passou. Fugiu e não voltará. E já que a vida é intensa e com tantos interesses, o problema é descobrir como vivê-la.

Pés, para que os quero, se tenho asas para voar.

Isolar-se no próprio sofrimento é permitir que ele destrua o interior.

No dia a dia suporto muito mais do que imagino.

Nada é definitivo. Tudo muda tudo se move, tudo gira, tudo voa e desaparece.

O que não me mata me alimenta.

Não creio que as margens de um rio sofram por deixá-lo correr.

A beleza e a feiura são miragens. Através delas os outros podem ver o nosso interior.

Escolha uma pessoa que olhe você com magia.

Se eu pudesse lhe dar alguma coisa na vida, eu lhe daria a capacidade de ver a si mesmo através dos meus olhos. Só então você perceberia como é especial para mim.

Eu sou a desintegração.

Amuralhar o próprio sofrimento é arriscar que ele te devore a partir do teu interior.

Bebia para afogar as mágoas, mas as malditas aprenderam a nadar.

Pinto a mim mesma porque sou sozinha e porque sou o assunto que conheço melhor.

Agora, vivo num planeta dolorido, transparente como o gelo. É como se houvesse aprendido tudo de uma vez, numa questão de segundos. Minhas amigas e colegas tornaram-se mulheres lentamente. Eu envelheci em instantes e agora tudo está embotado e plano. Sei que não há nada escondido; se houvesse, eu veria.

(E o que mais dói) é viver num corpo que é o sepulcro que nos aprisiona (segundo Platão), do mesmo modo como a concha aprisiona a ostra.

Espero que a partida seja feliz e espero nunca mais voltar.

Se existe vida após a morte, não me esperem, porque eu não vou.

Diego, houve dois grandes acidentes na minha vida: o bonde e você. Você, sem dúvida, foi o pior deles.

Pensaram que eu era surrealista, mas nunca fui. Nunca pintei sonhos, só pintei a minha própria realidade.

For the first time in my life Ive done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

I really feel it when I can't get to the gym for a few weeks. I like to run on a treadmill in the gym so I can keep track of what I'm doing.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

If you can't beat them, join them

You are my only one and I will never ever let you down.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

There's no smoke and mirrors here.

The spirit of meditation is the combating against the weight of one’s feelings.

In this crazy crazy world of figure skating it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.