We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

Everything is possible in this life.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.

In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.