Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.