There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.