Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.