Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Failures are part of life lessons.Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.

Never ran away for the sake of scars.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Something impractical cannot be beautiful.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.