When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.