"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere."

"The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love."

"The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes."

"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"It is a essential truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."