And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Every man needs a place to go to.