If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep…

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

Memories establish the past

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.