“There is always something left to love.”

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.