It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.