“If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!”

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

We can’t see and we can’t reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

Kings kill; clowns don’t; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.

I don’t work at being ordinary.

To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.

Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea.