The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.

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.

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

Together, we're going to finish the job we started.

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!)

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.