Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.