"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."

"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."

"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself."

"We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about."

"The gratification of desire is not happiness."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."