Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.