The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?