“You already have wings, you just have to trust that you can fly.”

“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”

“All ordinary people like us, everywhere, are trying to find the same things. It makes no difference whether they are New Englanders or Texans or Malayans or Finns. They all want to be left alone to conduct their own private search for a personal peace, a reasonable security, a little love, a chance to attain happiness through achievement.”

“Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

“Every journey starts with a first step.”

“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do – if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.”

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

“En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.”

“His days swelled with the monotony of hours, piling up in colossal heaps before and after him, the used the same as the new.”

“You’d be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you’d do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

“The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It’s that simple.”

“What you do today defines who you will be tomorrow, so choose your destination and take action.”

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

“When you are endowed with consciousness, you begin your journey to greatness”