When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.