Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.