If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

If I could clone myself, we’d be all right. But I can’t.

Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.