The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.