The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a sacred duty to help strengthen each other spiritually.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.

Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.