...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.