There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?