There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.