“The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.

Music is important for one’s health.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there’s also a lot of good.

I tried writing a song and it wasn’t very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad – but I was eight, so it’s okay.