If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.