“In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.”

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

I am convinced that God is love.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

I love musicals and I’m happy they are coming back because I’d love to do more.

Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Whoever is happy will make others happy.