A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.