I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now