Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.