I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.