The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I am rather inclined to silence.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.