It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Everyone is wrong about the future.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

See the world from another perspective and things would be simple.

It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.