Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise. - Stefan Zweig

Was it not the most wonderful thing on earth to be able to help one's fellow-creatures? I now knew that it was the only thing that was worth while.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.