I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.