But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.