Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Sadness is a state of sin.