People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.