I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

A smile is a sparkle of your soul and a glint of light from your heart.

It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

The only thing that restricted us from becoming one was our MINDS!

Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.