What a delight it is to respect people!

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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 unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.