The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.