They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.

When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed,you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.