Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

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