You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.