It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -- Miguel de Cervantes
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. -- Miguel de Cervantes