Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Truth has no form.

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

I don't write, I build a rhyme.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.