The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

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.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.