Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.