Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.