Quotes on Life

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I think you can do anything in this life whether you're in a wheelchair or not. I go to festivals, nightclubs, I travel the world, I'm loving my work on Triple J.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.