Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

If old age is good for anything it's good for being generous.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.