To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.