For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.