It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

Write only of what is important and eternal.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.