A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.