We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.