Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?" "To me? Everything.