The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.