“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

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

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. 

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

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I was arrested three times and tortured once

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue. 

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

 “You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.”

 “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

 “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”

 “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” 

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” 

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

 “When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.” –

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

 “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.” 

“Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.” –

 “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine: it is lethal.” 

“Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” 

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.” 

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.” 

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”