Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

Chewing and barking do not make you a dog, you need the patience.

Great tests precede great blessings.

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

There is no gift more great than love.

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.