“joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on lifes terms,”

“Survival requires a dose of madnesswhat cynics call hoping against hopejust like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar back...”

“You go on with your life, because life goes on, says Isabel. You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example. Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died o...”

“The French have a term for this brazenness: je men foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.”

“Reinvention is my philosophy, if you want to call it that, he says, looking out the window. Imagination is the key to creating a life that is ever new. Stanley turns his eyes to me. We are each of ...”

“The quest for knowledge is what makes humans survive, even if it hurts. I have trouble imagining that this minence grise was once a sixteen-year-old Hungarian boy in a death camp. Theres a troubles...”

“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”