"The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it."

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."