“After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.”

“Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

“You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.”

“(S)ome people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”

“These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.”