“The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!”

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Don’t give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

For your enemies, keep the door open forever!

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married…

Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

I wish I could read people’s minds.

But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can’t get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have.

I don’t mind having these relatives. I’ll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.