Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.