Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

To advise is not to compel.