You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

In the end all books are written for your friends.