You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

Solitude is independence.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.