“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

Love is my religion – I could die for it.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

An epic era has drawn curtains, never to happen again.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.