"Wear clothes that make you feel happy,"

“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”

“Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.”

Source : Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.115, BookBaby

“A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.”

“I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.”

“Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.”

“I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.”

Source : "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

“I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.”