"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war."

"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

"It is a radiant truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."