The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn’t planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.

Thoughts don't become things

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

I'm more famous now than when I was famous.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.