His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Turning your heart’s desires into actions is what counts most.

Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.

Time is much more valuable than money.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good.