And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.