Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.