The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.