A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

What a delight it is to respect people!