Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.