Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.