"There are times in life when the question of 'knowing' whether or not you are loved no longer matters. What matters is knowing that you love."

"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."

"Live to the point of tears."

"Truth, like light, is not subject to custom."

"If I had to write a book on ethics, it would have a hundred pages. Ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write: 'I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.'"