If you are excited of an idea that no one else, all that should matter to you is focus. Progressive thinkers are driven by their interests, not whether others are interested.

Man against man can only take revenge but cannot punish

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything out of it.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

I want my marriage to be like th Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son

God would be the strangest thing to exist.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.