Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

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.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.