Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.