As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.