"Arrogance complicates words, because it believes that intelligence is only for the chosen few. Elegance transforms complex thoughts into something that everyone can understand."

"Arrogance causes us to humiliate our fellow man or woman. Elegance teaches us to walk in the light."

"Arrogance attracts hatred and envy. Elegance arouses respect and Love."

"But every tribe, every people, has values that they associate with elegance: hospitality, respect, good manners."

"Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them."

"And even when passions run high, elegance does not allow the real ties binding two people to be broken."

"Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others."

"Elegance tends to be mistaken for superficiality and mere appearance. Nothing could be further from the truth: some words are elegant, others can wound and destroy, but all are written with the same letters. Flowers are elegant, even when hidden among the grasses in a meadow. The gazelle when it runs is elegant, even when it is fleeing from a lion."

"Those with eyes to see will see your light and be enchanted by it."

"No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth."

"Stay close to those who allow the light of Love to shine forth without restrictions, judgements or rewards, without letting it be blocked by the fear of being misunderstood."

"Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, enjoy life and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made."

"Stay close to those who say: ‘Everything’s fine as it is, but we still need to move on.’ Because they understand the need to keep going beyond the known horizon."

"Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity."

"Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way."

"Seek friends and allies among people who believe in what they are doing and in who they are. I’m not saying: seek out people who think the same as you. I’m saying: seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right."

"Meanwhile, be alert to a danger that threatens all communities: people being drawn into a standard way of behaving, taking as their model their own limitations, fears and prejudices."

"Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects."

"Community is life: from it comes our capacity for survival. That is how it was when we lived in caves and so it is today."

"We were born alone and we will die alone. But, while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people."

"And time will cease to exist, because in the land of pleasure-born-of-true-love, everything is infinite."

"True lovers will be able to enter the garden of beauty without fear of being judged. They will no longer be two bodies and two souls meeting, but a single fountain out of which pours the true water of life."

"When we are too generous in the sexual act and our main preoccupation is with our partner’s pleasure, our own pleasure can be diminished or even destroyed."

"Let us forget all that we are taught about how it is noble to give and humiliating to receive. Because for most people, generosity consists only in giving, but receiving is also an act of love. Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too."

"And even if this causes major changes in our world, we have nothing to lose, because by opening the door that unites body and soul, what we will gain is total love."

"Let us plunge together, then, down the dangerous path of surrender. It may be dangerous, but it is the only path worth following."

"It isn’t enough to imagine everything that might happen if we allowed ourselves to join not just our bodies, but our souls as well."

"How can such opposing states exist in harmony together? There is only one way: by surrendering yourself. Because the act of surrender means: ‘I trust you.’"

"If two bodies merely join together, that is not sex, it is merely pleasure. Sex goes far beyond pleasure. In sex, relaxation and tension go hand in hand, as do pain and pleasure, shyness and the courage to go beyond one’s limits."

"Men and women whisper to each other because they have turned a sacred gesture into a sinful act."

"And if I’m alone in bed, I will go over to window, look up at the sky and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company."

"Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love."

"I will not complain about life, saying: everything’s always the same and I can do nothing to change it. Because I am living this day as if it were my first and, while it lasts, I will discover things that I did not even know were there."

"For the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue."

"For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin."

"My smile is my way of saying: ‘You can destroy my body, but not my soul.’"

"When I reach a small village that I know well, I will enter it by a different route. I will be smiling, and the inhabitants will say to each other: ‘He must be mad, because war and destruction have left the soil barren.’ But I will keep smiling, because it pleases me to know that they think I am mad."

"I will look at everything and everyone as if for the first time, especially the small things that I have grown used to, quite forgetting the magic surrounding them. The desert sands, for example, which are moved by an energy I cannot understand - because I cannot see the wind."

"No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises, all you have to say to yourselves is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life."

"Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the keyring that opens the door."

"Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning."

"We don’t close our eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.’ We keep our eyes wide open, knowing that the light could lead us to do undreamed-of things."

"We love because Love sets us free, and we say things that we once never even had the courage to whisper to ourselves."

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

"Because we realised that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place. They simply left, and with every farewell comes a hidden hope."

"We need to love. Even when it leads us to the land where the lakes are made of tears, to that secret, mysterious place, the land of tears!"

"Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence."

"Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving."

"Love transforms, love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely. How can the force that moves the world and keeps the stars in their places be, at once, so creative and so devastating?"