It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.