There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.