“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

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.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word “quote”, so right before I die I could say “unquote”.

I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.

We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.