“We want to be, when we are young,A little man.I would like to be a big child,Stronger and fairer than a man,And more lucid than a child.”

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

“You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.”

“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart.Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.”