...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Sometimes the endpoint is the startpoint

There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.

People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.