Arrive with enthusiasm to every waking moment of your life.

At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

Sometimes you're going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there's nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions.

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you, " she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.