People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops.

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

Exercise humility and restraint.