The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

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

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.