When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.