Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Things never happen the same way twice.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Silence is an answer too.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.