When you love someone you love him as he is.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.