Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.