Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.