I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

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.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

We are condemned to live together.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.