Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.