Alfred de Musset

The return makes one love the farewell.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.