What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.