People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.

We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.