It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

There's only one story, the story of your life.