Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.

All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn’t success, then what is?

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.