"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."

"You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody."

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

"Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted."