For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.