To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.