Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.

If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.