Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.