When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.

Any truth creates a scandal.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.