Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.