You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love, it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Love is a great force in private life, it is indeed the greatest of all things, but love in public affairs does not work.
