The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

What is now in the past was once in the future

I want to someday be in the same position as John Elway, Joe Montana and Steve Young.