If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.