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" With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated. "

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" I don't try to control my days. "

" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "

" I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. "

" When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. "

" Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. "

" I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books. "

" Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. "

" Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. "

" I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one. "

" Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. "

" I hate to be smart. "

" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "

" The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. "

" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "

" I don't go to parties in general. "

" The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. "

" I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. "

" I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will. "

" I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. "

" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "

" Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. "

" I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing. "

" All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. "

" You should treat a muse like a fairy. "

" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "

" I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "

" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "

" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "