All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.