“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days. In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot.”

“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”

“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”

“I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”

“Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.”

“« Quote of the day: “Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel it».”

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“The sun comes out every day and teaches us that no matter what the shade is, it does not last forever.”