"My mother made soft polenta often, and..." - Quote by Leo Buscaglia

“The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.”

“Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.”

“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

“I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.”

“The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.”

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”

“When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.”

“Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

“It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”