To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.