“If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean that you would be a midget if you were bald.”

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

“Nunca había dado muestras de ser religiosa ni optimista, esa forma laica de ser supersticioso.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“A new day always comes with new hopes, new opportunities, and new lives.”

“Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!”

“There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”I shook my head, inching away from him.“Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.”

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”

“People used to build great libraries to symbolize man’s quest for knowledge, now we have the Internet which is both more powerful and wonderful. The men who used to get their information from the library were considered scholars but the men who get their information from the Internet are considered idiots, or worse, thieves.”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

“Love will always leave a footprint within my heart.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”