Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.