But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

To love is to lose control.