You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.