"MEMORY...People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time..."..
"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it ans see the broken places as lond as I lived"
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparking in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, asea mourished with lovers' tears. What else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet"
"The line that divides good and evil is not a line that divides good people from bad people, but a line which cuts through the middle of every human heart."
"Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand - highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice."