It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Believers are each other's mirrors.

May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love

Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other's feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies - think notThat we are only what we see.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our turn we join them in exploring the universe.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.