We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.