The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.