Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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