Collective madness is called sanity ..

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Sometimes life was like smoking in silence, without thinking where and when you are !

I'm strictly a 'look at the menu but don't order anything' guy when it comes to attractive women who aren't my wife.

Gratitude is a powerful trait.

If you can't explain it better leave it... (Dexter Season 2....)

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.

Chicks before dicks, and all that.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.