Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

Energy is based on love.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Life is fragile and absurd.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.