“Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man’s entire relation to God and to his neighbor.”

None better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Whatever befalls us has its meaning; though it is often hard to grasp. In the Book of Life every page has two sides. On the upper one, we inscribe our plans, dreams and hopes; the reverse is filled by providence, whose verdicts rarely match our desire.

You are enough. Your life has meaning. Your emptiness are valid. You matter.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.