She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.