In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.