But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.