The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Everyone is wrong about the future.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

I believe in finding strengthand safety in the arm'sOf Fate

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

To be a success, dare to go beyond your fear and doubts.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.