Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

This is the century of fear.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.