We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.