If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God - the God of Jesus Christ - and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others.