It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.