"Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some."

“I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!”

Source : "Madonna's personal trainer Tracy Anderson says she'll never let her get fat". www.mirror.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

“Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.”

“I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.”

“Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.”

“Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.”

“There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.”

“I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

“It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.”

Source : "Palestinian PM's leadership at stake when he pleads with Bush to help free detainees" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2003.