It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.