Monastic incarceration is castration.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

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What I really wanted was the impossible.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.