Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.