“I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.”

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.

A man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing.