The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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

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.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.