“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

Life is a game, play it.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

Give, but give until it hurts.

Intense love does not measure it just gives.

If a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me – there is nothing between.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.