There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.