The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

You could bounce rocks off her pride.

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

I met with Karl Lagerfeld, and if you have those kind of connections, that takes you into that world and puts you on that level.

We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.