To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.