You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

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

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.