There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.