Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Failure to love is almost like murder.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.