Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

I have only my own burden to bear.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.