The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.