“A smile is often the key thing. One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.”

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

To live is to be slowly born.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air, touching your skin, saying goodbye. The last time I felt alive, I was dying.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Jesus didn’t die on the cross to bless our life, He did it to change our life.

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.