One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.