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

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.