There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

We're all who we are endlessly.

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'