Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.

BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

The sky isn't falling.