One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

If there is no God, then I am God.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.