I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.