A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

To make something you have to be something.

We see only what we know.