A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.

Bad wolf. Stop baiting the human.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

A good story can travel in time and borders it hits you no matter where you are.

Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.