You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.