The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about...

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed,...

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I always say, waste not, want not, which is a terrible cliche the British invented during the war to get kids to eat their whole-wheat bread, but when I say it I mean, waste not money on boring old...

If you only get hypoglycemia around one person, the chances are actually much greater that you might be falling in love than that you have suddenly contracted a nasty sugar condition.

Uh-oh! BEWARE!!!" said Fensler. "Never, ever marry the best sex of your life. It only happens with someone who is very dangerous for you. It's passionate, exciting, but it generally indicates that you...

My name is Jean sans Peur. I was handsomer, healthier and stronger than you when I first came to the bagne. Look at what ten years have done to me.

...I wonder to what extent absolute silence and complete isolation inflicted on a young man locked in a cell can, before driving him mad, give rise to a true imaginative life. Life is so intense, so...

I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: But who will guard these bandits? he answered: Worse bandits. Later on, I was able to confirm the fact that the...

A butterfly flew in - pale blue with a thin black stripe, and somewhere near it behind the window a bee buzzed. What were these critters doing here? Had the winter sun confused them, or were they...

I toss and turn in my hammock, nervous about the last night of my imprisonment adventure. I get up and walk around my garden, which I have taken very good care of in recent months. The moonlight...

Yes, it is harder to bear loneliness these days than it was before. . I'm in such a state that I don't even have to close my eyes to wander past and present with my thoughts.

He even whispered in my ear: You suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you.

You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?

What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace

Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad,...

The important thing was that we were alive...

This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either in a cell or in a black-hole. I'd only had seven months of total freedom with my Indian...

It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with...

We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every...