No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!