“So many years of education yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why it’s so important.”

“So many lovers, yet there is no love.”

“So many of us find ourselves saying, “but he was so great!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”

“Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that”

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

“Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?”

“Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.”

“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”

“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”