“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

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

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”