All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
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.
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If you want to be happy, be.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.