It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

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

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.