When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.