It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

I like to make use of what I know

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.