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.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.