A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

The tree of life is hope.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.

Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.