"The soul is healed by being with children."

"To live without hope is to cease to live."

"Beauty will save the world."

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

"Life is a dream; 'tis the waking that kills us."

"One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the presence of someone, and then it is better to be alone."

"To believe that your impressions hold good for others is to be released from the confines of your own personality."

"A farm, a house, a garden, a small income, and the work that one chooses and loves—that is the good life."

"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years."

"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."