The eyes can often lie, not see what is essential. But the heart, never.

When love is not madness, it is not love...

It pierced the heart...and there was blood all around...soaking his hands in it, he tried wiping her tears...

Is it possible to love forever, she asked. Don't you know what forever means? It means now, he answered. Oh then we are in love forever.

Faith is the flower that unfolds its own beauty without knowing how it will fulfill life's duty.

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.