Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.