On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.