To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.