Old age means nothing more than ceasing to suffer for the past.
Love is like wine, and like wine, it comforts some and destroys others.
Sometimes it is nothing more than a very thin door that separates children from what we call the real world, and a little wind can open it.
The surest measure of all strength is the resistance that overcomes.
The first sign of genuine political vocation is, at all times, that a man renounces from the beginning to demand what is unattainable for him.
It is not until we realize that we mean something to others that we feel there is an aim or purpose in our existence.
Only those whom destiny has struck can truly be helped with love. Only they know how to love and be loved as it should be loved: with gratitude and humility.