It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

Failure is the new success.

We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.

I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.