If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.