"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age."
"Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei."
"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."