Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.