To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

No man can bear a child's cross.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

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.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on television with pool cues, who would win? 1) Ricky Schroder 2) Gary Coleman 3) The television viewing public

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.