Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

my dear, we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.

Death from sin no power can separate.