“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could r...”

“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.”

“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or i...”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”