Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.