“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”

“In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”