"When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
"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."
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."
"But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy."
"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."