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. 

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

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

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.

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.

I was arrested three times and tortured once

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

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

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

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 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.

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've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.

Passion is the genesis of genius

Lasting change is different than a goal. You don’t always get your goals, but you always get your standards