True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.