To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.