Be a good person, but don't waste your time trying to prove it.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.

The person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Life is really generous to those who pursue their personal legend.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Truth is the best disinfectant.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.