I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

The sky’s dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest’s comfort.

I am the only one who can save me from myself.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.

I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That's dangerous. That should be illegal.

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

Don't tell yourself you don't need love just because it hasn't found you yet.