"Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood,"

“Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.”

“Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.”

“I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.”

“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

“Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.”

“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.”

“A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!”

“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”

Source : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo