In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.