Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

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

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?