That’s the thing about the words we utter. We have to choose them carefully. They have the power to affect others, and maybe affect the course of things in ways we can never imagine. Sometimes we remember something someone said years later. It gets imprinted in our memory and refuses to go away.

Life is also a great teacher. Life gives you the exams, but doesn’t tell you the syllabus. It is up to us to set our own lessons.

Each of our mistakes makes us stronger. They are our life lessons. They make us grow. And I think that is the most important thing in life. To keep making mistakes and learning from them, so that we never stop growing.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

You never know who is going to get back into my life.

The feeling of a full stomach with completely satiated taste buds, a nice atmosphere and good company under a night sky is one of the most pleasant things that one can experience.

Beauty is not what you see on the outside. Beauty is what you are deep inside, where no one watched.

I am very certain that I do not want to waste my time with the ‘drains’. There are so many beautiful, positive and uplifting things in life. There is so much beauty, so much joy. Life is so short and so fleeting. It is entirely up to us to enjoy each moment. There will of course be moments when you feel sad, hopeless, and despondent and, as though, all is lost. When that happens, it is time to pick up the phone and call the best radiator you know.

The secret of staying young forever is to drown yourself in work that recharges you.

Never trust love’ – this is what makes sense. If you trust love, you will be hurt sooner or later.