"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."

“I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.”

“It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.”

“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”

“Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?”

“When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.”

“As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.”

“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job”

“It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.”