I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it's important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.

We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.