“Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.”

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.

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

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.