“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.