There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.