Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

When you find a way to serve, the angel in you awakens.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.