We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

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.

Why must I always be a man's servant?" Lada demanded. "If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant.

Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.