Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.