One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.