You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.