"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."

"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesna€?t mean he lacks vision."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."

"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget."