But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Be selfless to find yourself.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life