Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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."

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.