The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.