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.

The person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

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

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

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

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.

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

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

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.

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.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

Truth is the best disinfectant.

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

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

Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.

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

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.

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.