I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them.

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.