Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

We are afraid of losing what we have.