What a delight it is to respect people!

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.