Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.