Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.