He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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.

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.