What lies lurk in kisses.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.