There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

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

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.