The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.