One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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