A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.