Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.