“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”