Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.