The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Our hearts are magnets. We attract to our heart the emotions that live within it

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.