"Uit deze belevenissen, die niemand ziet, bestaat de innerlijke, wezenlijke lijn van ons lot. Zulk een breuk en scheur groeit weer dicht, hij heelt en wordt vergeten, maar in de diepst verborgen hoek leeft en bloedt hij verder."
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."