I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter