“A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.”

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.

There is always something left to love.

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.

The company of the saints helps us to recognize that God never abandons us, so that we can live and bear witness to hope on this earth.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.

For the sake of peace in the Middle East and the world, Japan will never give up and will continue to play its best possible role.

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.

The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.