I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.